High Egg Prices Spur Promotion Of “Easter Potatoes”

From the potato marketing group Potatoes USA:

Why put all your eggs in one basket? With food prices rising, families are embracing a playful, budget-friendly tradition— Easter potatoes!

Potatoes USA is celebrating the growing Easter trend by painting, crafting, and cooking potatoes, proving that creativity and tradition go hand in hand. Durable, versatile, and already a pantry staple, potatoes make the perfect blank canvas for Easter fun.

Potatoes decorated with safe-for-consumption materials can be enjoyed as a delicious treat once the artwork is complete. No special dyes are needed—paint, markers, stickers, and food coloring are all great options for decorating your Easter potatoes.

Parents can also cut potatoes in half to create Easter stamps! Once halved, children can use a pen or marker to draw a shape or design on the potato’s flat edge. Adults can carefully cut around the drawing using a carving knife, leaving the raised shape on the potato. After the adults have finished carving, the little artist can paint the potato stamps and use their creations to make Easter-themed paintings on paper.

The press release points to their website Potato Goodness for recipes such as “herb and cheese deviled Easter potatoes.” Yes, really. In the Fox News video below, small children demonstrate potato-dyeing.